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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Equity should mean that everyone gets what they need to succeed to their highest potential. Gifted kids need challenge and rigor or they are highly likely to disengage in school (read the literature on gifted kids). Focusing only on the lowest achievement group is not equity. [/quote]

If you have 3 gifted kids and 1,000 kids who are lagging, where should you invest resources?

Again, if you kids is truly gifted they will figure themselves out. If your kid can’t figure out for themselves how to get the best out of MCPS you should maybe reconsider if they are truly gifted or motivated. My kid found all sorts of ways to get MCPS to be exactly what she wanted and needed, but it required work and effort on her part, not the entire school district twisting itself into a pretzel for one kid.[/quote]

Tell us how?[/quote]

I don’t know how your child is gifted or what that means for you. Try dual enrollment at one of several college options and see if you can join the professor’s research project. Or become a TA for an advanced math section at your school. Or do an internship. Or do outside enrichment. Or join the math team. Or take easier classes during the summer at an accelerated pace to make more space for harder sciences during the school year. The options aren’t a secret.

What doesn’t work is to claim the local school isn’t good enough for your gifted child because they need something unique and not be willing to do something unique.
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